Certainty Quote by Kathryn Schulz Download Open image “both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold” — Kathryn Schulz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Cold Common Common cold Contagious Doubt Doubt and certainty Social science Ted
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds. — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a highly contagious airborne disease, if your neighbor is sick, you're potentially imperiled. We're as close in our humanity… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles. — Theresa Tam Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine. — Sean Stephenson Copy Share Image
We must not allow Covid to turn us into a country of hypochondriacs, fearful of every minor symptom. Yes, of course if you may… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are.… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of our beliefs are really beliefs once removed. Our faith that we are right is faith that someone else is right.… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“When one admists that nothing is certain", proposed the philosopher Betrand Russell, "one must, I think, also add that some things are much more… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“It’s as if we regard other people as psychological crystals, with everything important refracted to the visible surface, while regarding ourselves as psychological icebergs,… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent citizens of… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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